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Too grim and brutal

el debbo

4/14/17

The documentary footage of Berlin and surrounds is fascinating, as others have mentioned. But I'd rather see it in a better movie, A Foreign Affair.

The Big Lift

Chris B.

8/20/11

Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas star in this re-enactment of the Berlin Airlift which supplied food and the many necessary items to the people of Berlin, Germany. It's a simple story of enlisted men and the German girls they fall in love with after the war while they are doing their duty as airmen in The Big Lift. The most spectacular part of this film is the cinematography. I was born in Berlin in 1946 and also know the Frankfurt am Main region. Filmed in 1950, these are actual photographs of what Berlin looked like at the conclusion of World War II and for many years thereafter. In Clift's performance you see the heart of America and in Douglas' performance you see the prejudice that still prevailed. Well worth watching.

Outstanding reality

Rachel Edwards

7/22/09

If I were a history teacher, this would definitely be on my list of movies to make postwar WWII come to life for my students.

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